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Patras Science Park (PSP) is one of the six Science and Technology Parks (STPs) established in Greece back in the early 90s under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT). An initiative of the Foundation for Research and Technology and the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (FORTH/ICE-HT), became in 2001 an independent Public Limited Company (Sociètè Anonyme) owned by the Greek Ministry of Finance.

For over 15 years, PSP supports the growth of innovative, technology based companies across several sectors such as ICT, biotechnology, clean energy and other industrial technologies, contributing to the City Region’s knowledge economy.

Patras Science Park operates according to the rules and provisions of the relative legislation for public and limited companies. It is managed by a Board of Directors assisted by a group of professional, dedicated and experienced personnel and partners.

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For over 15 years, PSP supports the growth of innovative, technology based companies across several sectors such as ICT, biotechnology, clean energy and other industrial technologies, contributing to the City Region’s knowledge economy.

Today, PSP is home of 24 companies and institutions, employing nearly 120 highly skillful personnel in the fields of engineering, chemistry, physics and medicine. These companies are catered with a mix of high quality office space, technical infrastructure and supporting administrative and business services.

Partners

Patras Science Park is proud to be engaged in a number of partnerships with cluster initiatives and associations to increase Park’s and companies’ visibility, strengthen their institutional framework, improve business environment and create new business opportunities.

Main Activities

Patras Science Park is proud to be engaged in a number of strategic collaborations with organizations that provide technology transfer and knowledge production, support for science and innovation driven commercial activity. Working in partnership with such organizations, creates opportunities both locally and international for the whole value chain. Browse in these individual sections to see the type of support we offer and in case you become interested to join our community please do not hesitate to contact us at: tomara@psp.org.gr or +30(2610)911.557.

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Tensilica, Inc. and Irida Labs today announced that they are partnering to enable availability of Irida Labs’ computer vision software portfolio on Tensilica’s new IVP imaging/video DSP (digital signal processor). Irida Labs has joined Tensilica’s Xtensions partner program and will enhance the support of new joint customers with their extensive computer vision expertise.

“We were very impressed with the embedded vision expertise at Irida Labs, and we welcome them to our partner program,” stated Gary Brown, Tensilica’s director of imaging/video. “We see many opportunities for their applications at companies interested in offloading the imaging functions to our efficient DSP to get 10 to 20x higher peak performance at lower power.”

“We are excited to partner with Tensilica to offer our embedded vision technology and software solutions on a platform as powerful as the IVP,” said Vassilis Tsagaris, CEO of Irida Labs. “Together, we are able to deliver high-performance power-efficient video analytics and computer vision solutions to the market. We also see great potential for our other software solutions. The IVP platform has proven to be ideal for realizing a cost-effective implementation.”

IVP is an imaging and video dataplane processor (DPU) that is ideal for the complex image, video and gesture recognition signal processing functions in mobile handsets, tablets, digital televisions (DTV), automotive, video games and computer vision. The IVP DSP has a unique instruction set tuned for imaging and video pixel processing that gives it an instruction throughput of over 16x the number of 16-bit pixel operations compared to that of the typical host CPU with single-issue vector instructions. In addition to its raw instruction throughput advantage to host CPUs, the imaging specific compound instructions supported by IVP give it a higher peak performance of 10 to 20x and much higher energy efficiency. IVP’s rich instruction set has more than 300 imaging, video and vision-oriented vector operations, each of which applies to 32 or more 16-bit pixels per cycle.

About Irida Labs

IRIDA Labs is a platform-independent leading technology provider of software and silicon intellectual property (IP) for embedded computer vision. Our product portfolio includes embedded vision software and silicon IP for high throughput applications such as video stabilization, face detection and recognition, low-light image enhancement, pedestrian detection and traffic sign recognition addressing consumer electronics, mobile devices and automotive markets. Founded in late 2007, the engineering team is based in Greece, with worldwide sales support. Please come see our demo in Tensilica’s booth 6-D101 at MWC2013 and visit us online at www.iridalabs.com.

About Tensilica

Tensilica, Inc. is the leader in dataplane processor IP cores, with over 200 licensees. Dataplane processors (DPUs) combine the best capabilities of DSPs and CPUs while delivering 10 to 100x the performance because they can be optimized using Tensilica’s automated design tools to meet specific and demanding signal processing performance targets. Tensilica’s DPUs power SOC designs at system OEMs and seven out of the top 10 semiconductor companies for designs in mobile wireless, telecom and network infrastructure, computing and storage, and home and auto entertainment. Tensilica offers standard cores and hardware/software solutions that can be used as is or easily customized by semiconductor companies and OEMs for added differentiation. For more information on Tensilica’s patented, benchmark-proven DPUs visit www.tensilica.com.

Tensilica is a registered trademark belonging to Tensilica, Inc. Xtensions is a trademark of Tensilica, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Connecticut Innovations (CI), the state’s quasi-public authority responsible for growing Connecticut businesses through innovative financing and strategic assistance, today announced that it has made a $1 million investment in Advent Technologies Inc. (Advent) of East Hartford, Conn., the parent company of Advent Technologies S.A., through its Eli Whitney Fund. This investment, part of a $2.3 million funding round also involving Piraeus Capital Management, Systems Sunlight, Velti and individual investors, spurred Advent Technologies S.A. of Athens, Greece, to relocate its headquarters to Connecticut, while maintaining R&D operations overseas.

“Advent is a wonderful addition to Connecticut’s growing fuel cell community, a sector that Governor Malloy is eager to strengthen through strategic investments such as this one,” said Claire Leonardi, chief executive officer and executive director of CI. “The company brings innovative technology to Connecticut, and we look forward to providing strategic guidance and introductions as it establishes itself here.”

Advent develops and produces materials, components and systems for renewable energy applications. Its current focus is the development and production of high temperature proton exchange membranes (HT PEMs), high temperature membrane electrode assemblies (HT MEAs) and other HT PEM fuel cell products and systems. Its products are designed for use in electricity generation and hydrogen cleanup. In addition to conducting R&D in Greece, Advent will establish R&D and manufacturing operations in Connecticut.

Many of Advent’s products incorporate the company’s proprietary high temperature proton exchange membrane, known as Advent TPS®, which uses a unique pyridine-based polymer electrolyte. Advent TPS® HT PEM is used as a building block for the company’s HT MEAs and fuel cell stacks and gives Advent’s products superior properties. Advent’s HT PEMs operate in a temperature range that enables their use with traditional fuels such as natural gas, propane, biofuels and military fuels.

“We are very excited about the completion of our recent financial round led by Connecticut Innovations, which has allowed us to commercialize our technology and relocate our headquarters to the U.S.,” said Advent Chief Executive Officer Vasilis Gregoriou, Ph.D. “The concentration of a large amount of talent related to the fuel cell industry in Connecticut and the outstanding track record of Connecticut Innovations in supporting the growth of technology companies made it easy for us to decide to move our headquarters to East Hartford while maintaining an R&D presence in Greece.”

The current and potential applications for Advent’s components and HT PEM fuel cells are diverse and include combined heat and power applications for residential and small business use, anti-idling applications (e.g., in powering truck radios and charging phones in trucks when drivers park their vehicles) and military applications (e.g., in charging and powering portable electronic devices, such as radios, computers and night-vision goggles).

HT PEM fuel cells demonstrate clear advantages – in size, weight, performance, and cost – over their low temperature counterparts. For these reasons, and because they are powered by more traditional fuels, HT PEM fuel cells are much more practical than low temperature PEM fuel cells.

About Connecticut Innovations Inc.

Connecticut Innovations (CI) is a quasi-public corporation providing equity, debt and bond financing and other forms of financial assistance to companies in all stages of the business life cycle, from startup to later stage. CI offers its portfolio companies strategic guidance and collaborations with partners in business, finance, education, government and nonprofit sectors. CI’s initiatives are designed to grow the state’s economic and technology base, and to stimulate business investments and job creation. For more information on CI, please visit www.ctinnovations.com

About Advent Technologies Inc.

Advent Technologies Inc. is the parent company of Advent Technologies S.A., a six-year-old
Technology Company based in Greece. Advent develops new materials and systems for renewable energy technologies and is primarily focused on high temperature PEM fuel cell membranes and components. The company was founded by researchers from the Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas and the University of Patras, both internationally recognized research centers. For more information, visit www.advent-energy.com.

Think Silicon Ltd, today announced that Dialog Semiconductor uses ThinkVG, a Graphics Processing Unit to get Graphics power in it's new series of products. ThinkVG is integrated in the recently announced Green VoIP™ “SC14453” multicore system-on-chip (SoC) along with ThinkLCD Display Processor that enables rendering of fluid graphic user interfaces onto touchscreen LCD displays.

ThinkVG is the smallest Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in the market supporting the Khronos Group OpenVG 1.1 standard. It is an extremely low-gate count IP Core based on VShader, a C/C++ programmable Floating Point SIMD Streaming processor, designed for graphics applications. System Architecture is Scalable and embedded software allows flexibility. ThinkVG comes complete with Software Library implementing OpenVG 1.1 running on VShader and with API package running on host processor with emphasis on minimizing CPU overhead by the use of command lists and on reducing memory bandwidth by utilizing custom image compression hardware.

“ThinkVG is developed to support OpenVG having in mind to provide a very compact and low power solution for embedded devices that require fast 2.5D Graphics Rendering” said George Sidiropoulos, Managing Director of Think Silicon. “We focused on designing Unified Shading Architecture assisted by a balanced pipeline that would achieve the highest throughput per gate ratio due to high component reusability and at the same time offer scalability for different standards and performance levels in the future.”

ThinkVG is available today and can be complemented with ThinkLCD/ML, a multilayer Display controller and Think2D/MJPEG, a 2D Composition Engine with optional built-in MJPEG decoder features.

The Project “Vector graphics accelerator - ThinkVG” is co-financed by Hellenic Funds and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the Hellenic National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2007-2013. The Project is carried out in the framework of the O.P. “Competitiveness-Entrepreneurship” within the Programme “Hellenic Technology Clusters in Microelectronics – Phase-2 Aid Measure”. The Programme, managed by the Intermediate Body “Corallia - Hellenic Technology Clusters Initiative”, aims to achieve a long-term competitive advantage, to materialize a viable ecosystem of excellence and develop a sustainable innovation cluster in the area of Semiconductors, Νano/Μicroelectronics and Embedded Systems.